Highbury & Islington by Chanah Velvel
“Holmes at number 221B
Gerry Rafferty, RIP
Named after William, 18thC
Now TfL’s lost property.”
— Baker Street by Marion Clarke
Paddington by Zoë Cobb
Totteridge & Whetstone by Bardia Khorshidian
Totteridge and Whetstone,
what peculiar bedfellows you are,
brushing up against each other
on Northern line carriage cars.
After work, I watch as you alight the train
to meet friends (though in different bars).
Whetstonian lads for Edgware bound,
wait boisterously for 251s,
while Totterites totter past them
to their car park parked Jaguars
“
A doctor’s mask;
leech-like, sealed tight.
The downward escalator, a Japanese girl’s mouth.
Her; scared eyes.
Us; spewing lipped.
Going up,
so,
the kiss that I blow,
is a match that I have flicked;
a tweezer for her tic.
My aid to operation,
X,
(a kiss).
” — Notting Hill Gate by Raoul Colville
Knightsbridge by Christian Julliard
King’s Cross St. Pancras by Siddharth Khajuria
Farringdon by David Solomons
Finchley Road by Zoë Cobb
Highgate by Bardia Khorshidian